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xAI is Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, developer of the Grok chatbot and operator of the Colossus supercomputer used to train its models.
SpaceX closed its Nasdaq debut on Friday, June 12, 2026, at $161.11 after opening just above $150, up nearly 20% on the largest IPO in stock market history. At that close, the shares SpaceX sold were worth about $14.5 billion more than it collected.
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Ramp's September data has 43.8% of its businesses paying Anthropic and 40.6% paying OpenAI, a 3.2-point gap after OpenAI gained 1.12 points. The figures imply more than half of paying firms buy from both, so the gap says little about vendor lock-in.
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SpaceX agreed to testify before the New York City Council on Friday after the council threatened to ask a judge to enforce its subpoena. No court filing is reported, so the threat has produced a witness and left enforcement untested.
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Researcher cereblab's mitmproxy capture shows xAI's Grok Build CLI 0.2.93 sending about 5.10 GiB to storage and 192 KB to the model. The prompt said not to read files, so teams should audit what their agent CLIs transmit.
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Elon Musk called memory pricing 'extortionate' and praised Micron, whose latest quarterly gross margin was 81%. Tom's Hardware reports market insiders and analysts expect shortages through at least 2028, and hardware budgets have to cover that horizon.
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OpenAI is replacing infrastructure chief Sachin Katti with compute CTO Uday Ruddarraju after roughly a year. CNBC cites a $600 billion compute target for 2030; the Wall Street Journal, via Quartz, says it is now roughly $750 billion.
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xAI is folding SuperGrok, X Premium and Cursor into one subscription priced from about $8 to $200 a month, two outlets report. Cryptopolitan describes a Monday announcement; Crypto Briefing says the prices are leaks X had not confirmed by Oct. 11-12.
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Meta lets its Muse assistant write explicit sexual chat for adults who ask, a spokesperson told WIRED. Mashable reported over five million downloads of an app whose explicit language Meta bans for Instagram and Facebook users.
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Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar said on Face the Nation that the Pentagon replaced Anthropic's AI models with no operational impact. No cost or quality figures were reported, so operators weighing a model-agnostic design still have to test a swap on their own work.
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Shane Mac's Grok Bot agent posted his personal bank balances and spending into his company's executive Slack channel. The agent's bank access was read-only, a limit on what it could do to the accounts that left open where it could send what it read.
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Tesla switched on Grok @Bot in its Cybercab and Model Y vehicles on October 11, 38 days after the Cybercab opened to the public in Austin. The build looks cheap on the evidence, and the pitch to riders now includes what they do during the trip.
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Ten AI developers including OpenAI, Google and Meta have changed or pledged to change their UK data protection policies after ICO pressure. Because the regulator says it is tracking delivery, buyers can now ask those vendors how they meet its training-data tests.
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Goldman Sachs says AI labs renting SpaceX's GPU compute pay rents well above the revenue the industry needs to turn a profit. The same bank underwrote SpaceX's June listing and projects its AI revenue rising about 100-fold by 2030.
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Amazon cut Meta's Muse off for arriving unannounced, browsing without identifying itself, and appearing to keep customer credentials. Signed-request verification, already running at Cloudflare and CloudFront, answers the middle objection.
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The arithmetic on Anysphere is twenty times recurring revenue for a four-year-old company, which is what SpaceX decided agentic coding was worth after eleven xAI co-founders left and 45 Cursor staff followed.
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SpaceX is seeking $40 billion in Apollo-led debt to buy Nvidia chips, $30 billion of it investment-grade, the Financial Times reported. The deal would close in 2027, the year most of its $28 billion in AI commitments come due.
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Census authors on dev.to count 13 of 21 AI providers publishing the EU AI Act's training-content summary, up from the 2 they reported nine days earlier. Most newly counted documents sit on legal or trust pages the model card never links to, so checks that stop at the card miss them.
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Elon Musk says Terafab will build and run its own chip fab, and TSMC could at most sublease part of it. Anyone counting on Terafab capacity is therefore planning around a Musk-controlled site whose Intel licence terms are still unpublished.
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FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson said on September 25 that he will resist treating AI agents as independent actors that carry their own blame. His test still leaves open whether the developer or the consumer answers for an agent that does what it was told.
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OpenAI and Anthropic raised more than $200 billion of the record $515.8 billion invested in US startups through September, PitchBook-NVCA data shows. With IPOs slipping, a venture-backed vendor that exits is likelier to be sold, often below its last private price.
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